One of the coolest capabilities of Apache OpenWhisk is the ability to develop functions with Docker. This allows you to develop functions in languages which are not supported out of the box by the ...

This week I attended OOP in Munich, Germany, which is a conference with 2300 attendees. My colleagues and I presented and demonstrated the IBM Cloud. Below are some pictures. The IBM team: Ansg...

Last week there was a webinar Create Alexa skills with Watson Conversation where I was supposed to present. However since I couldn’t make it, my colleague Mark Sturdevant jumped in on a short notic...

A question that I get asked very often these days is: Should I use Serverless or Kubernetes to build cloud native applications? Both computing options have pros and cons and it depends on your need...

As a developer I develop and debug code locally as much as possible. I’ve written some sample code that shows how to debug Node.js OpenWhisk functions via Visual Studio Code. The sample code expla...

With the IBM Watson Conversation service you can easily recognize intents and entities in user phrases and you can define flows of dialogs declaratively. Recently a new feature was added (as beta) ...

The Anki Cozmo robot can recognize faces and objects with markers like Cozmo’s Power Cubes. Ansgar Schmidt and I have developed some sample code to allow Cozmo to recognize other types of objects v...

Ansgar Schmidt and I open sourced a sample that shows how to use TensorFlow to recognize certain types of flowers. The first version of the sample used the MobileNet model which we deployed to the ...

In addition to Patterns and How-Tos there is another good resource for developers to learn how to use the IBM Cloud. The Solution Tutorials provide step-by-step instructions on how to implement com...

TensorFlow provides predefined models that can be retrained to recognize certain objects in images. OpenWhisk is a serverless platform that executes functions in the cloud. With Kubernetes you can ...